(toplevel) Fix dramatic breakage for ordinary crosses (related to program_transform_name)

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Sat Dec 28 12:57:00 GMT 2002


On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:00:58PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > I dunno, sounds fine to me if it lets the subsequent real build
> > go in parallel.
> 
> If you fill the job slots with busy-wait configures, there aren't any
> slots left to put real builds in.
> 
> Of course, this is the point where we could conditionally take
> advantage of gmake's "don't run these in parallel" syntax.

Which it doesn't have.  I was mistaken about the purpose of the
construct I quoted.  Not that we couldn't add such a syntax to GNU
make; it might be generally useful.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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